J. J. WRIGHT ON THE HARVEST BUG. 5 



So with this creature, it may afterwards become aquatic, or pass to 

 some other and different mode of life, in which its prior condition 

 may not be suspected, and which, of course, has not been traced. 

 Professor Westwood, some time since, directed the attention of the 

 members of the Entomological Society to certain immature speci- 

 mens of Tick which he had found in a dog kennel, but in the hexa- 

 pod state they possessed such close affinities with the octopod condi- 

 tion of Ixodes that there was no difficulty in recognizing them. 

 There is no good ground, therefore, for presuming that there is any 

 connection between Harvest Mites and Ticks, even in the hexapod 

 state. 



